Syria rejects accusations in Hariri probe
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-21 15:30

Syria on Friday rejected U.N. findings that linked Damascus to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

"I think the report is far from professional and will not lead us to the truth," Mehdi Dakhlallah, the Syrian information minister, said in an interview on Al-Jazeera television from the Syrian capital.

He said the report, about which he had seen media reports but did not have an official text, was "100 per cent politicized" and "contained false accusations."

The report of the U.N. probe, submitted to the U.N. Security Council late Thursday, implicated top Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officials in the Feb. 14 assassination of Hariri in massive bombing in Beirut that also killed 20 others.